Professional Diploma in Injury Management for Team Sports
Professional Diploma in Injury Management for Team Sports — a comprehensive professional program covering the latest methodologies and best practices.
- Category: Injury Prevention & Rehab
- Level: advanced
- Duration: 9 months
- Price: 1150 EUR
Official courses from Barça Innovation Hub, FC Barcelona's educational arm, with experts who have worked inside the club. Earn an accredited certificate issued by the hub, available across the Middle East and North Africa through Champions Hub, its official partner for the fifth year.
What you will learn
- Propose efficient prevention strategies based on a process grounded in scientific evidence.
- Manage pathologies and specific injuries relevant to each sport.
- Enhance critical analysis through training in various professional roles within sports science and health.
- Improve sports performance and prevent injuries through a deeper understanding of methodologies used in strength training and muscle power programs.
- Apply appropriate methodologies to design post-injury rehabilitation processes where strength development is crucial.
- Analyze workload monitoring data to guide the training process towards injury prevention and optimize sports performance.
- Acquire specific strategies for resolving recurrent situations in the athletic environment.
Course content
- Module 1: Injury Prevention
- Basic concepts in epidemiology and injury prevention
- Muscle injury prevention
- Prevention of joint injuries
- Integrative reading
- Module 2: Team Sports Pathology
- Management of medical pathology 1
- Management of medical pathology 2
- Sports Specific pathologies
- Special sports and competitions
- Module 3: Neuromuscular Basis for Strength Training
- Characteristics of the musculoskeletal system
- Muscle action and its relationship to sports
- Systemic changes in detraining and immobilisation
- Assessment of muscular properties in relation to sport
- Module 4: Strength training methodology: its application in the improvement of sports performance and post-injury rehabilitation for competition
- Contextualization: how can we adapt strength training to team sports?
- Strength workload methodology in situation sports
- Integrating strength workload into planning and programming of situation sports
- Strength in the design of sports specific tasks. Examples based on football
- Module 5: Strength and muscle power as a key feature of rehabilitation from sports injuries
- Analysis of injury in sports: injury mechanisms and associated risk factors
- Sports injuries and their relationship with the quality of strength
- Strength manifestations and muscle power in the post-injury rehabilitation process
- New paradigms in strength training: muscle building through vascular occlusion
- Module 6: Indicators for Training Load Management
- Weekly changes
- Acute chronic load ratio: concept and calculation method
- Acute chronic load ratio: application and limitations
- Training load moderators and mediators
- Module 7: Selecting Variables: Are we repeating information or providing additional information?
- Relationship between internal load variables, and between external load variables
- Relationship between external load variables
- Integrating measurements. Efficiency index
- Selecting variables
- Module 8: Nutrition, Recovery and Training Adaptations
- Exercise and fatigue
- Recovery and adaptation
- Optimising recovery and adaptation
- Recovery from injury
- Module 9: Daily Situations in Sport
- Managing Injured Players
- Possibilities for a Dual Career
- Difficulty Management I
- Difficulty Management II